Volleyball Serving Instructional Videos

Foundations Series: Tape 2: Serving (Video) by Mary Wise

With Mary Wise, University of Florida Whether you are coaching a beginning-level volleyball team, or are a player looking to improve upon the foundations and fundamental skills of your game, this video will benefit you! Mary Wise first has college-level players demonstrate the skill to be featured in the video. Through correct modeling of the technique, you and your players will get an excellent look at the skill and the very best technique to perform the skill correctly. Wise then takes a look at teaching the skill to a beginning-level volleyball squad; she breaks each skill down to the very core, featuring how to teach the skill and the drills to use to help each player learn the skill correctly. She concludes with demonstration (again with the college-level players) of more advanced-level techniques of the featured skill...showing all coaches and players where their skill progression can take their game! (34 minutes, 1999) To purchase the complete Foundations For Successful Volleyball 6 Tape Series click here .

Serving And Serving Strategy (Video)

With Terry Pettit, Head Coach, University of Nebraska, 1995 NCAA Champion, Coach of the Year The most comprehensive and complete instructional videotape ever produced on serving. Especially appropriate for the high school and junior high coach, this tape outlines a progression for teaching an efficient and aggressive overhand serve that will stand up under pressure! For the more advanced player, Coach Pettit shows a progression for teaching a jump serve. While players demonstrate the movements on the court, Coach Pettit presents an informative chalk talk on the University of Nebraska serving strategy and how it can be applied to high school and junior high volleyball. (39 minutes) To order the Championship Volleyball Series click here

Part 1: Passing. Dunning breaks down what he feels are the four key elements for successful, accurate passing: Physical, Skill, Movement, and Mental. Dunning teaches and takes his demonstrators through: proper starting position detailing the positioning of the feet, body, and arms and passing posture and the technique for a developing a successful passing platform. Drill progressions include: Tilt Drills, Change of Direction Drills, and individual drills a player can work on to become a Champion passer! Part 2: Serving. Dunning's approach: Never serve easy, never serve rockets, have a good serve every play! Dunning first details the Floater Roundhouse Serve. He first discusses the importance of injury prevention and shares detailed sequences for learning the Floater Serve (he also illustrates positioning of the feet, hands, body, and shoulder with a serving sequence of Toss, Step to Target, and Hammer the Nail!). Effective Wall Drills and Lane Serving Drills for developing accuracy and technique are also shown. Finally, he shares instruction and drills for a Jump Serve with a Toss and Attack approach. 53 minutes. 2002. ISBN 1-56404-967-1. Also available in the Becoming a Champion Volleyball Player Series: Becoming a Champion Setter Becoming a Champion: Defense and Blocking Becoming a Champion: Hitting

Serving Strategies and Techniques (Video)

This video features Rita Crockett, former University of Iowa Head Volleyball Coach, member of the U.S. National Volleyball Team 78- 84, former professional volleyball player and coach. Being a former Olympian, professional volleyball player and coach, Rita Crockett understands how to get a team out of its offense. Crockett first describes and demonstrates the basic serving technique of six types of float serves, three types of topspin serves, and three types of jump serves. She then illustrates each type of serve to a 2, 3, and 4-person serve reception to show how these serves can take a team out of their offense. Crockett shows how to take the strongest hitters out of the game and disrupt her rhythm with the type and position of the serve. 2000. 40 minutes. ISBN: 1-56404-465-3 Also available in the World Class Library Series: Passing Techniques Setting Techniques Advanced Attacking Quick Attack and Combination Plays Systems For Team Offense Individual Defense: Digging, Pursuit, and Recovery Fundamentals of Blocking Playing Effective Team Defense Also available in the Technique and Skills Ball Control Series: Passing Techniques Setting Techniques

This video features Don Shaw, Stanford University Head Men's Volleyball Coach. In this information-packed video, Coach Shaw teaches, demonstrates, and drills the basic fundamental skill of serving and passing. Shaw teaches the specific skills in this video in an easy to understand sequence: technique explanation, technique demonstration, and creative and active drill demonstration. In Part 1: Serves, Shaw first teaches the Floater Serve. Shaw teaches positioning of the feet, ball placement (toss), contact, and follow through techniques for a solid on-target serve. Next, Shaw teaches the Jump/Spin Serve, again sequencing from the proper foot position, approach, contact, toss or ball placement, and follow-through to target, along with strategies to ensure striking the ball as close to the net as possible and at it's highest point. Part 1 is concluded with Shaw teaching the Jump/Floater Serve, combining the skills from the floater and the jump serve that offer players a different angle on their serve. In Part 2: Passing, Shaw begins with Forearm Passing beginning with proper setting of the base, followed by hand position for a passing platform, contact and follow through techniques. Shaw concludes Part 2 by teaching the Overhand Pass. 37 minutes. 2003. Also available in the Above the Net Men's Volleyball Series: Above the Net: Men's Volleyball: Blocking and Individual Defense Fundamentals Above the Net Men's Volleyball: Setting and Spiking Fundamentals

Approaches To Serving (Video)

With Miles Pabst, University of Oklahoma Looking for the best instruction on serving techniques? This video will be a great addition to your coaching library, as it gives excellent technique instruction for several effective serves, and covers footwork, lift, arm motion, and ball contact for each serve....great video! (42 minutes) To order the Winning Volleyball Series (3 Videos), with Miles Pabst, click here .

Serving And Serve Receive Drills (Video)

Kathy DeBoer, University of Kentucky, Associate AD and former championship coach, opens with the philosophy of the game of volleyball. Notes that the serve and pass are critical skills and that drills must increase in difficulty, use a scoring system and be game-like to be effective. Three types of drills are demonstrated; serving, individual serving and passing and team serving and passing drills. (53 minutes) To order the 9 Tape Volleyball Drill Series click here

Serving Techniques: Volume 1 (video) by Bob Bertucci

Features an in-depth discussion on the given topic from America's best Coaches and finest programs. X's & O's are diagrammed and game footage is used in many presentations. Filmed live at a coaches clinic in a hotel meeting room. Royalties benefit the Make-A-Wish Foundation. 1995, 57 min.

Serving Techniques: Volume 2 (video) by Bob Bertucci

Features an in-depth discussion on the given topic from America's best Coaches and finest programs. X's & O's are diagrammed and game footage is used in many presentations. Filmed live at a coaches clinic in a hotel meeting room. Royalties benefit the Make-A-Wish Foundation. 1995, 60 min.

Winning Serve and Service-Reception Drills (video) by Bob Bertucci

A great collection of drills designed to help develop serving and service-reception skills. 1999, 40 min.

Serving Techniques and Tactics (video) by Rueben Nievens

Features an in-depth discussion on the given topic from America's best Coaches and finest programs. X's & O's are diagrammed and game footage is used in many presentations. Filmed live at a coaches clinic in a hotel meeting room. Royalties benefit the Make-A-Wish Foundation. 1994, 50 min.

Serving Technique & Training - Volume 1 (video) by Dave De Groot

Features an in-depth discussion on the given topic from America's best Coaches and finest programs. X's & O's are diagrammed and game footage is used in many presentations. Filmed live at a coaches clinic in a hotel meeting room. Royalties benefit the Make-A-Wish Foundation. 1994, 63 min.

Developing a Tactical Serving Plan (video) by Shelton Collier

Features an in-depth discussion on the given topic from America's best Coaches and finest programs. X's & O's are diagrammed and game footage is used in many presentations. Filmed live at a coaches clinic in a hotel meeting room. Royalties benefit the Make-A-Wish Foundation. 1996, 64 min.

Serving the Opponent Off the Court (video) by Therese Boyle-Niego

Features an in-depth discussion on the given topic from America's best Coaches and finest programs. X's & O's are diagrammed and game footage is used in many presentations. Filmed live at a coaches clinic in a hotel meeting room. Royalties benefit the Make-A-Wish Foundation. 1996, 40 min.